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Definition of Eastern catholicism
1. Noun. The beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastern Catholicism
Literary usage of Eastern catholicism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273 by Thomas Frederick Tout (1903)
"... make the fathers realise the sorry plight of eastern catholicism and the need
of uniting all sorts of Oriental Christians against the Tartars and Turks. ..."
2. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1901)
"eastern catholicism is regarded by him as in many respects " part of the history
of Greek religion rather than that of the history of the Gospel ". ..."
3. The Gospel and the Church by Alfred Firmin Loisy, Christopher Home (1909)
"l This special character of Latin Catholicism has had the effect of modifying
greatly the features common to it and to eastern catholicism. ..."
4. The Church Enchained by William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin (1916)
"They may desire and help hasten the time when Roman and eastern catholicism may
prove acceptable and congenial to them, or when they may absorb the Roman or ..."
5. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson (1817)
"... the monks were the chief support of eastern Catholicism, and of the church of
Rome (5). The eastern monks had copied the oblation of children to God ..."
6. The Ideal Italian Tour by Henry James Forman (1911)
"The Ambrosian liturgy resembles that of eastern catholicism rather than Roman.
The pillars sweep straight upward, giving a sense of enormous height, ..."
7. The Churches Separated from Rome by Louis Duchesne (1907)
"... the three great servants of God, who, in the decline of the fourth century,
shed such a pure light of doctrine and virtue over eastern catholicism. ..."
8. What is Christianity?: Lectures Delivered in the University of Berlin During by Adolf von Harnack, Thomas Bailey Saunders (1908)
"As eastern catholicism may in many respects be more appropriately regarded as
part of the history of Greek religion than of the history of the Gospel, ..."
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